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Watching Classic Movies and Lovin’ Every Minute of It!
By Annmarie Gatti, Minoo Allen, et al.
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Silents Are Golden: The Top 10 (Possible) Hit Films of 1924
The Top 10 (Possible) Hit Films of 1924 As 2024 is drawing to a close, I’m reminded that a number of iconic silent films are now 100 years old: Sherlock Jr, The Thief of Bagdad, …
Condensed concepts
Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter.
By Ross H. McKenzie.
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From Leo Szilard to the Tasmanian wilderness
Richard Flanagan is an esteemed Australian writer. My son recently gave our family a copy of Flanagan's recent book, Question 7. It is a personal memoir that masterfully weaves together a dizzying array of topics, …
By Ross H. McKenzie, 264 words
Prop Up the Bar
Travelling the land looking for the perfect pub. Then wondering what the one around the corner is like...
By Nick C.
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Updated a week ago
Giants and Woodmen - Cerne Abbas and Bridport
I'm afraid that my dedication to the blog and all things pub has trailed off at the end of 2024."Stuff" has gotten in the way, as it does occasionally.So instead of pubs adorned in Christmas …
Actuaries in government
News and updates from the Government Actuary's Department.
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Strengthening actuarial practice through collaboration
This blog explores the partnership between Bayes Business School and the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD), showing how academic expertise helps solve government challenges in managing financial risks. The collaboration helps train future experts who combine …
By Ioannis Kyriakou - Professor of Actuarial Finance, Bayes Business School - City St George's, University of London, 690 words
Granite and Sunlight
Disability justice in the age of austerity.
By Fiona.
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Updated 3 months ago
The Hope Of Independence – Ten Years On
I write a lot about how I see hope. I have poems about how hope doesn’t feel positive to me – I know its effect is positive, but it’s not a nice feeling. It hurts. …
By Graniteandsunlight, 1,053 words
Josh Collinsworth | Blog
Writings on development, design, and random thoughts.
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The childlike and the childish
Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the other is merely making up …
Humanizing The Vacuum
Alfred Soto's blog about arts and politics.
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The best albums of 2024, part five
I look for pleasure. Education is pleasure. And these albums did so. 4. Liquid Mike – Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot n the band’s fifth album Mike Maple and his mates rip through 13 songs in half …
By humanizingthevacuum, 386 words
The Aperiodical
Occasional(ly) mathematical blogging.
By Katie Steckles, Christian Lawson-Perfect, Peter Rowlett.
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Mathematical Objects: Universe of cake
A conversation about mathematics inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Game of Logic. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, 23 words
Peter Follansbee: Joiner's Notes
Seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools.
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Last pitch for the season, I promise
[The shopping part of this post is copied from my substack blog today – and the log splitting at the end is different in each blog…today’s substack post was getting too long…] There’s really woodworking …
By pfollansbee, 414 words
sjhoward.co.uk
Simon Howard's personal blog about stuff.
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1080—1980
When I told you that there were twelve mosaics under the A1058 in Newcastle, you may have had one of two thoughts: Aren’t there fourteen? Why yes, that was poorly fact-checked. Does this mean 13 …
EvermoreStudio
By Andrew Crawford.
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The Enchanted Forest
Welcome to the Enchanted Forest!This holiday card is my take on a popular origamic architecture/kirigami concept. These are laser scored and cut, then hand folded from the Ice Gold stock I have been using. I …
By Andrew Crawford, 81 words
Life, Technology and more…
I'll know where I'm going, when I get there...
By Mark Cathcart.
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The High Speed Pendulam
I read this morning, it’s completely nuts. China and America are indeed diametrically opposed. China is on it’s way to building 30,000 miles of high speed rail. All paid for by borrowing, much of the …
By Mark Cathcart, 456 words
declad
I am an architect with over twenty years experience working in different countries. I am British but I live in Helsinki.
By Lewis Martin.
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Updated a week ago
The House of Government
The Book The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine I saw a reference somewhere online to Yuiri Slezkine’s The House of Government and thinking it was a book about a single building a giant 1931 …
He Can Jog
A composer, improviser and instrumentalist of sorts.
By Erik Schoster.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
Log: Tuesday December 3rd
Woah, it's already December. It's been a year now since I started journaling about this rain piece for resonators and brass. Since then the project has expanded to incorporate more computer-controled solenoid and motor-driven activation …
Oliver Andrich
A software developer from Koblenz with a passion for code, coffee, punk rock and a good conversation.
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PyCharm, Tailwind & htmx
After I shared my initial thoughts on PyCharm, I moved more and more of my projects — personal and work related — to PyCharm. So far, it works out pretty nice, and I am getting …